Did you try putting target="_black" on the <form> tag?
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 5:30 AM, aksarben <rwada...@up.com> wrote:
> How can I make a Wicket page open in a new browser tab/window? I'm not
> talking about a popup, but a standard window. I have an app that needs to
> open a GIS map viewer in a separate window, based on the user's current
> context. The map viewer requires that I submit a form with GPS coordinates,
> so I need Wicket to render some simple HTML with the coordinates in hidden
> form fields, then submit the form to the map viewer URL as soon as the page
> renders. This part is no problem. The problem is that Wicket renders the
> HTML in the wrong window.
>
> Currently, I'm using code to generate the link to invoke the map viewer:
>
> *final MenuItem mapMenu = new EnmMenuItem("Map") {
> private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
>
> @Override protected AbstractLink newLink(final String componentId) {
> final SubmitLink link = new SubmitLink(componentId, form) {
> private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
> @Override public void onSubmit() {
> selectMapMenu();
> }
> };
> link.setDefaultFormProcessing(false);
> link.setEnabled(true);
> link.setRenderBodyOnly(false);
> link.add(new SimpleAttributeModifier("target", "_blank"));
>
> return link;
> }
> };*
>
> When the menu item is chosen, the following is invoked:
>
> *@Override protected void selectMapMenu() {
> for (final TrackSummary summary : grid.getSelectedItems()) {
> try {
> setResponsePage(new TrackMapRequestPage(summary.getSystemNumber()));
> }
> catch (final UnauthorizedPageError ex) {
> error(ex.getMessage());
> }
> }
> }*
>
> Despite setting the link target to "_blank", the TrackMapRequestPage opens
> in the SAME window as the application. How can I make it open in a
> DIFFERENT
> window so both windows are visible at the same time? My design specs says
> the new window shouldn't be a popup.
>
>
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